Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

@ The Poetic Research Bureau3702 San Fernando BlvdGlendale, CA 91206Doors open at 5:00pmReading starts at 5:30pm

$5 donation requested

MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI lives in Durham, NC, where she is studying 19th-century American literature at Duke. Her first book The Bruise, out now from Fiction Collective Two, is the winner of the 2006 Ronald Sukenick prize for innovative fiction.

JOCELYN SAIDENBERG is the author of Mortal City (Parentheses Writing Series), CUSP (Kelsey St. Press), winner of the Frances Jaffer Book Award, Negativity (Atelos) and Dispossessed (Belladonna). She is the founding editor of KRUPSKAYA Books. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in San Francisco and works as a catalog librarian for the San Francisco Public Library.

THÉRÈSE BACHAND is the author of the just published luce a cavallo, chosen by Luigi Ballerini for a Green Integer Gertrude Stein Award. She has been anthologized in various PIP Anthologies, and her collection Daughter of the Ephemeral Word is forthcoming from i.e. press. Her poems have appeared in the journals Area Sneaks, Aufgabe, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, and Primary Writing, among others; Ms. Bachand--as her 4 to 6 year old students at the UCLA Lab School know her--lives in Los Angeles.

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About the Bureau

The Poetic Research Bureau is a valise fiction and portable literary service in Northeast Los Angeles.

Our living room at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown hosts an extended community of autodidacts and guessworkers caught up in language, inquiry and the unguarded arts. Just as it is: a community free school by day, and by night, a non-professional public forum for presentations, readings, screenings and sundry intellectual exchanges.

As an out-of-pocket California milk-crate boosterist enterprise, the PRB also serves as the irregular literary umbrella for projects such as occasional poetry journal The Germ ('97-'05), edited by Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card; and art-lit mag Area Sneaks, edited by Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi.

As a research bloc, the Bureau attempts to cultivate composition, publication and distribution strategies that enlarge the public domain. It favors appropriations, impersonations, 'compost' poetries, belated conversations, unprintable jokes and doodles, 'unoriginal' literature, historical thefts and pastiche. The publication emphasis is on ephemeral works, short-run magazines and folios, short-lived reprints and excerpts in print-on-demand formats, and the occasional literary fetish objects of stupidly incomparable price and value.

Several reading series are hosted at 951 CKR, and we welcome writers whose work lacks the 'commercial tendency' while harboring the bright, high-minded intentions that often lead to broad panic, righteous perversions, improbable arguments, and the ill-served cul-de-sacs of genius. The series are coordinated by the aforementioned Messrs Maxwell and Mosconi. If you're sympatico, passing through town, or need a megaphone, 50 seats and a big blank space, give us a write.